Yep, they seem to be gearing up again for some reason.
I'm fortunate enough not to be inundated, so I find it fairly easy to deal with, but I find the methods behind it baffling.
What I can't stand about it on myself is its patchiness. If I had snow-white hair all over, or a shiny metallic grey, I could probably deal with that. It's just having loads of thin spiderweb grey hairs mixed in with brown hair that bugs me. I look like a manky old cat.
I mean, if I was after a plumber, I'd probably ask about a reliable one on a local community forum rather than check comments on a psychedelic 60s blog. But perhaps that's just me.
Oh, don't mind me. I'm only the homeowner.
That's one of the most baffling song segments I've ever heard. At least let him get to some sort of punchline.
It's the groups who signed to major labels in 1991 and never saw their albums come out (or indeed their singles properly promoted) I feel faintly sorry for. Where's the My Jealous God, Poppy Factory and Impossibles albums we were promised?
I remember somebody wrote a letter to the NME listing all the baggy bands they'd promised us would be "huge", and asking what exactly happened. For once, there was no reply mocking the letter's author, and I took that to mean the paper was already in the process of moving on.
Bloody hell, I'd forgotten all about them until just now. The ultimate "mates with Pete Doherty and in the bottom half of the Top 40" kind of group. I was in Australia when a lot of these bands first broke. I remember picking up a free NME CD and thinking "What is going ON up there?"
Here you go... 'ave this! (as Gary Crowley used to say). The album "Lux" could be the basis of a quiz about lifted hooks and riffs. My memory is failing me somewhat, but I genuinely found it staggering they got away with it. I suppose not having an actual hit helped. youtu.be/LBowpkmltW0?...
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